Vukovar Synagogue

Great Vukovar Synagogue
Velika Vukovarska Sinagoga

Vukovar Synagogue on a postcard
Basic information
Location Vukovar, Croatia
Rite Ashkenazi
Status Devastated in 1941, demolished in 1958
Leadership Rabbi: Izrael Scheer
Architectural description
Architect(s) Ludwig Schöne
Architectural style Neo-romanticism, neo-Mudéjar
Completed 1889

Vukovar Synagogue was the main synagogue of the Jewish community in Vukovar, Croatia, after the first smaller synagogue was sold to the Calvinist church in 1910.[1]

The Jews of Vukovar settled in the city in the 19th century from other parts of the Habsburg Monarchy. The Jewish community in Vukovar was one of the oldest and most significant Jewish communities in Croatia.[2] The first Vukovar synagogue was built in 1845 by architect Fran Funtak. In 1889, architect Ludwig Schöne built the Great Vukovar Synagogue for over 200 members of the Vukovar Jewish community. In 1941, during World War II, the synagogue was plundered and devastated by the Nazis.[1] Almost all members of the Jewish community Vukovar were killed during the Holocaust, including Rabbi Izrael Scheer and his wife.[3][4] In 1958, communist authorities of the SFR Yugoslavia demolished the synagogue and sold the remaining ruins.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 (Croatian) Filozofski fakultet odsjek za povijest umjetnosti; Dragan Damjanović; O gradnji i stilu prve vukovarske sinagoge iz 1845. godine; stranica 242; 2007.
  2. ↑ (Croatian) Ha-Kol (Glasilo Židovske zajednice u Hrvatskoj); Dragan Damjanović; Obitelj Pfeffermann i njihova poslovno stambena jednokatnica u Vukovaru iz 1923; stranica 32; broj 106, srpanj / kolovoz / rujan 2008.
  3. ↑ Kraus (1998, p. 463)
  4. ↑ "Židovska općina Vukovar" (in Croatian). CENDO.

Bibliography

  • Kraus, Ognjen (1998). Dva stoljeća povijesti i kulture Židova u Zagrebu i Hrvatskoj. Zagreb: Židovska općina Zagreb. ISBN 953-96836-2-9. 


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